The Coronavirus is not the only new challenge facing Chinese Christians this winter. A new and stricter set of regulations governing churches went into effect in February. And these new regulations are likely to challenge Chinese Christians long after the Coronavirus outbreak is controlled. Because the news from China is all about the Coronavirus, people ...
CORONAVIRUS DOES NOT SLOW THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN CHINA
The Coronavirus is not the only new challenge facing Chinese Christians this winter. A new and stricter set of regulations governing churches went into effect in February. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Hyun Sook Foley, the new regulations are likely to challenge Chinese Christians long after the Coronavirus outbreak is controlled. “Because ...
24 KILLED IN CHURCH ATTACK IN BURKINA FASO
According to persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea, on February 16th in the Burkina Faso village of Pansi, gunmen killed 24 people and left at least 18 wounded when they attacked a church service. When they entered the church, the gunmen separated the locals from the non-residents and then separated the men from the ...
HINDU NATIONALISTS IMPLEMENT NETWORK TO SPY ON INDIAN CHRISTIANS
According to persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Foley Hyun Sook, the Hindu nationalist movement, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has organized a nationwide network of people to report Christian activity. “The RSS want to station radical Hindu nationalists in every one of India’s villages,” Foley explains. “This way, when officials see Christian ...
How did the author of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs respond to the Coronavirus of His Time?
John Foxe never liked being called a martyrologist (he regarded his work as church history), but the author of Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church, popularly called Foxe's "Book of Martyrs", turned to the martyrs as exemplars when in 1563 he wrote a pamphlet to encourage and comfort Londoners caught in the grip of ...
CHURCH LEADERS IN THE “NORTH KOREA OF AFRICA” RECEIVE TRAUMA CARE
Church leaders from Eritrea received intensive trauma care, as well as training how to deliver trauma care to their congregation members, in an emergency training event conducted earlier this month by persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea. “Not many people have even heard of the small country of Eritrea, but it is of special ...
SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF CHINESE CHRISTIAN ATTORNEY’S MARTYRDOM COMMEMORATED BY NEW VIDEO
Voice of the Martyrs Korea is marking the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Chinese Christian attorney Li Baiguang by releasing a video containing a scripture song of Isiah 35 that he wrote and sang as he would ride the bus for days on the way to the countryside to represent clients facing difficulties with ...
NK SEX-TRAFFICKED WOMEN IN CHINA AT SPECIAL RISK FOR CORONAVIRUS
North Korean sex-trafficked women are at special risk for the coronavirus spreading through China according to persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Hyun Sook Foley. “More often than not, these women are sold to impoverished Chinese men living in poor conditions,” representative Foley explains. “Because they are not living in China legally and ...
The Coronavirus shows the world what is in us
The church has always had an interesting history concerning plagues and viruses. It is not a history of self-preservation. As I wrote in my book, The Whole Life Offering: Hospitals owe their origin to the plethora of plagues and epidemics that struck the ancient world with alarming regularity and force. Observes author Rob Moll, “When ...
TRAPPED BETWEEN GOVERNMENT TROOPS AND REBELS, CAMEROON PASTORS RECEIVE TRAUMA CARE
Pastors from the western region of Cameroon received intensive trauma care, as well as training in how to deliver trauma care to their congregation members, in an emergency training event conducted in December by persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea. “Persecution caught these pastors by surprise,” said Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Dr. ...